Quotes of: Ordinary-guy Keyword

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.

David Cassidy

Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.

Nicholas Sparks

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Oswald Chambers

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Paul Ricoeur

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Robert Bresson

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

Tony Parsons

The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

Marcia Gay Harden

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Roger Penrose

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Martin Parr

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

Miuccia Prada

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

Francis Spufford

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Sigmar Gabriel

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Bruce Feiler

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

Geraldine Brooks

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Jurgen Habermas

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Cynthia McKinney

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Gerald R. Ford